When you allow the government to have the power to censor, then you give the government a power that will inevitably be abused. The only way for a free people to protect themselves from the abuse of a power is not to allow it to exist in the first place.
If the people want to hear what you have to say, they will pay you to tell it to them. Or watch it for free on Youtube.
In what country does every single citizen have the right to be heard by every other single citizen whether they want to listen to you or not?
Maybe if your name is Castro, Kim, Chavez....
According to the article, concentric circles of temperature variation in the cosmic background radiation were caused by successive massive black holes, some of which supposedly predate the big bang.
Indium is three times as abundant in the earth's crust as silver, with Canada being the leading supplier currently. That's still a lot less abundant than silicon.
What will us average Americans do with the money we save by bursting the "health-care bubble?" Well, as typical modern human beings, we will probably spend it on health care. Pills to make us happy, surgeries to counter our gluttony, procedures to make us look youthful, and inefficient, end-of-life, I'm-not-ready-to-die emergency health care. We'll either spend this money directly or demand government services to supply it (meaning higher debt or taxes). In other words, Americans spend enormously on health care because we want to, and if we had even more money to spend, we'd spend that on health care too. Nobody wants to be sick, and nobody wants to die.
It may not be easy, or cheap, but it's your duty as a free citizen to stand up for your rights. Freedom is not a natural human state. It must be maintained by the people every day, in every generation, whenever and however destiny calls them to do so. A people who wait to defend freedom, or who leave the task to others, loses it.
Because it makes perfect sense that middle-eastern terrorists would bring their wives and children aboard a plane to Orlando, and then discuss their nefarious terroristic plans with each other, for all to overhear, in English.
Still, address my point, what benefits are there to combining so many vaccinations besides simple convenience, and in all probability, a higher profit for the mfg?
The rate of vaccination goes down when vaccination requires multiple trips to the doctor for multiple shots. Parents slack off. And the shots become harder for schools to track. And delayed immunizations increases the length of time during which a child could become a deadly disease vector.
With adequately sophisticated software, it won't matter where the keys are. For longer stretches of touch-typing, the computer will be able to interpret your keystrokes anywhere on the screen by pattern-matching. Maybe even tell which finger is touching the screen by measuring the distances between the taps or even reading fingerprints. Or, to begin typing, you first quickly "set" the keyboard with a single reference tap, which would become an easy habit.
Another alternative is static positional typing - resting all of your fingers (or just your thumbs or wrists) on the screen and tapping the fingers up and down to type.
Please post your list of terrorist attacks by Christians and Jews.
The destruction of the Canaanites
The Crusades
The Inquisition
The Portuguese slave trade
The "Discovery" of America and the Christianization of the "Indians"
The British/American slave trade
The Colonization of Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Orient
The Opium War
The "Lost Children" of Australia
The creation of Israel in the middle of Palestine
At least recently we have graduated to killing in the name of money instead of that other god.
There are some exceptions, of course, like apache, and linux is obviously successful in the server market. However, the notion that any commercial products are having a hard time "competing with free" is bass ackwards.
The server market is not some niche afterthought market. It is the original and most natural market for a Unix clone, and free software took that market (from Unix) by storm. The desktop came later and is making inroads despite Microsoft's pre-existing illegal monopoly. Where would Mac OS be without its free underpinnings for example?
The difference is consumer desktops (unlike Unix servers) are cheap to start with, so free isn't all that much cheaper.
I know that copying music is illegal, so will the kids before this and after this. We all know copying music is illegal, why try to educate me more on something i care to know little about. I know it's wrong, that's enough for me.
According to a poll on the site, 95% of respondents think they should be allowed to copy a CD they've purchased as many times as they want.
Yes. Imagine a world in which China/Bush's America/Hillary's America no longer censors the web but subtly modifies it instead. Maybe with the cooperation of Yahoo et al. All power inevitably becomes abused. What good is freedom of expression if you can't be sure your expression is your own?
You have to interact. You can't build your own roads, defend your own borders (no how much firepower you amass), protect your own air and water from distant polluters, manage your own advanced economy, or build your own computer out of wood chips and sand. Even if you draw up individual contracts with other like-minded individualists, bartering for many of your needs, who will enforce those contracts? Who will keep gangs or the mob or indeed the government from taking over everything you have?
You can't unilaterally decide that all these interactions can only happen on your terms. All the other people you interact with, directly and indirectly, will have their own terms. The "social contract" is the framework within which we interact without anarchy and it exists whether you admit it or deny it, codified in our laws and constitution.
The "some people" who wrote our constitution did so in our name and have bound you to it out of practical necessity (and if necessary by force). You have a remarkable degree of freedom, historically speaking, but not as much as some ideological rejectionists would like to think.
You are a human being. Human beings are social animals (that's how we have evolved). As a social animal, you are not capable of living independently from your fellow humans. The nature of your relationship with your fellow humans is not just up to you, but to the community (nation, in this case) as a whole, because it involves them as well as you.
From this inescapable interdependence we derive the "natural law" concept that the community has the right to impose its will on the individual - the so-called "social contract".
The nature of that social contract - that is, to what degree the community can impose its will vs to what degree individuals retain freedom from it - is a matter decided over time by every society through its customs and institutions.
In the US, we have a constitutional government under which we have granted to the government certain powers. All the powers not granted to the government are retained by the people. The government's power derives from the people as a whole. It need not be approved by each and every individual.
So yes, the government can govern you without your consent as an individual, and it is ethical and moral (within the context of "natural law") for it to do so, and it is not a violation of the principles of the Declaration of Independence or the US Constitution for it to do so. You retain the right to protest, to vote, and to attempt to convince the rest of us that we are wrong.
As for the 3 months, that number NASA pulled out of their asses to prevent the appearance of having another expensive failure.
It was completely appropriate of NASA to base its cost-benefit analyses on a conservative estimation of the working life of the Mars Rovers. There were a lot of unknowns for these missions, and overpromising the benefits before the fact would have been borderline dishonest. Can't you just be glad that the mission succeeded beyond conservative expectations?
The aqueducts are worthier of Wonder status than the Colosseum. They were a bigger project, more of an engineering feat, and had a greater effect on history.
It matters when they decide what to teach your children. It matters when they vote for politicians believing God wants us to defend God's official borders for Israel, God wants us to oppress homosexuals, God wants us to keep whatever they think is immoral out of libraries and stores and off the Internet, God wants us to go to war against Godless Muslim countries, God wants us to stop stem cell research, etc. Or how about God made the white race the world's natural rulers, or God wants us to wipe out infidels, or fly airplanes into buildings or blow up cities? When people choose to believe things based on mysticism instead of reason, every prejudice can be magically validated and every base impulse indulged.
Beowulf comes out of an oral tradition not a written one. Furthermore, it is the greatest known Anglo-Saxon epic only because it is the only surviving one. Actually it's a mish-mash of self-contradictory and repetitive language, semi-Christianized and sanitized, probably unrepresentative of its genre. After it was written down it was lost for many centuries because the English language changed radically after the invasions of William the Conqueror, and English became a language of the lower classes, no longer used for learning, and people forgot how to read it. Most of our manuscripts for Ancient Greek texts come from Spanish Jews who got them from the Arabs - again, Europeans forgot how to read the language. Only the Latin texts were preserved by Christian Monks, and many of those were suppressed by the Church.
It's a good thing that language changes and adapts. It's a bad thing when writing degenerates or falls into misuse.
That is, Google is a content provider. The content it provides is links, which require great skill and a great investment to produce. All Verizon does is deliver the damn mushrooms. Does the delivery boy deserve a bonus every time a chef creates a masterpiece? Does the mail man get a cut if you mail a script, or a check?
Verizon needs to keep their hands off my damn mushrooms.
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I decoded the sky and found constellations! I decoded a cloud and saw a bear!
When you allow the government to have the power to censor, then you give the government a power that will inevitably be abused. The only way for a free people to protect themselves from the abuse of a power is not to allow it to exist in the first place.
If the people want to hear what you have to say, they will pay you to tell it to them. Or watch it for free on Youtube. In what country does every single citizen have the right to be heard by every other single citizen whether they want to listen to you or not? Maybe if your name is Castro, Kim, Chavez....
According to the article, concentric circles of temperature variation in the cosmic background radiation were caused by successive massive black holes, some of which supposedly predate the big bang.
Indium is three times as abundant in the earth's crust as silver, with Canada being the leading supplier currently. That's still a lot less abundant than silicon.
Just don't put your tongue on it.
What will us average Americans do with the money we save by bursting the "health-care bubble?" Well, as typical modern human beings, we will probably spend it on health care. Pills to make us happy, surgeries to counter our gluttony, procedures to make us look youthful, and inefficient, end-of-life, I'm-not-ready-to-die emergency health care. We'll either spend this money directly or demand government services to supply it (meaning higher debt or taxes). In other words, Americans spend enormously on health care because we want to, and if we had even more money to spend, we'd spend that on health care too. Nobody wants to be sick, and nobody wants to die.
It may not be easy, or cheap, but it's your duty as a free citizen to stand up for your rights. Freedom is not a natural human state. It must be maintained by the people every day, in every generation, whenever and however destiny calls them to do so. A people who wait to defend freedom, or who leave the task to others, loses it.
Because it makes perfect sense that middle-eastern terrorists would bring their wives and children aboard a plane to Orlando, and then discuss their nefarious terroristic plans with each other, for all to overhear, in English.
Freedom isn't the right of the majority to suppress minority opinion, that's why.
The rate of vaccination goes down when vaccination requires multiple trips to the doctor for multiple shots. Parents slack off. And the shots become harder for schools to track. And delayed immunizations increases the length of time during which a child could become a deadly disease vector.
With adequately sophisticated software, it won't matter where the keys are. For longer stretches of touch-typing, the computer will be able to interpret your keystrokes anywhere on the screen by pattern-matching. Maybe even tell which finger is touching the screen by measuring the distances between the taps or even reading fingerprints. Or, to begin typing, you first quickly "set" the keyboard with a single reference tap, which would become an easy habit. Another alternative is static positional typing - resting all of your fingers (or just your thumbs or wrists) on the screen and tapping the fingers up and down to type.
Please post your list of terrorist attacks by Christians and Jews.
The destruction of the Canaanites
The Crusades
The Inquisition
The Portuguese slave trade
The "Discovery" of America and the Christianization of the "Indians"
The British/American slave trade
The Colonization of Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Orient
The Opium War
The "Lost Children" of Australia
The creation of Israel in the middle of Palestine
At least recently we have graduated to killing in the name of money instead of that other god.
The server market is not some niche afterthought market. It is the original and most natural market for a Unix clone, and free software took that market (from Unix) by storm. The desktop came later and is making inroads despite Microsoft's pre-existing illegal monopoly. Where would Mac OS be without its free underpinnings for example?
The difference is consumer desktops (unlike Unix servers) are cheap to start with, so free isn't all that much cheaper.
According to a poll on the site, 95% of respondents think they should be allowed to copy a CD they've purchased as many times as they want.
that software is very evil
Yes. Imagine a world in which China/Bush's America/Hillary's America no longer censors the web but subtly modifies it instead. Maybe with the cooperation of Yahoo et al. All power inevitably becomes abused. What good is freedom of expression if you can't be sure your expression is your own?
You have to interact. You can't build your own roads, defend your own borders (no how much firepower you amass), protect your own air and water from distant polluters, manage your own advanced economy, or build your own computer out of wood chips and sand. Even if you draw up individual contracts with other like-minded individualists, bartering for many of your needs, who will enforce those contracts? Who will keep gangs or the mob or indeed the government from taking over everything you have?
You can't unilaterally decide that all these interactions can only happen on your terms. All the other people you interact with, directly and indirectly, will have their own terms. The "social contract" is the framework within which we interact without anarchy and it exists whether you admit it or deny it, codified in our laws and constitution.
The "some people" who wrote our constitution did so in our name and have bound you to it out of practical necessity (and if necessary by force). You have a remarkable degree of freedom, historically speaking, but not as much as some ideological rejectionists would like to think.
Millions of people will be able to call each other to ask "is your power out too?"
You are a human being. Human beings are social animals (that's how we have evolved). As a social animal, you are not capable of living independently from your fellow humans. The nature of your relationship with your fellow humans is not just up to you, but to the community (nation, in this case) as a whole, because it involves them as well as you.
From this inescapable interdependence we derive the "natural law" concept that the community has the right to impose its will on the individual - the so-called "social contract". The nature of that social contract - that is, to what degree the community can impose its will vs to what degree individuals retain freedom from it - is a matter decided over time by every society through its customs and institutions.
In the US, we have a constitutional government under which we have granted to the government certain powers. All the powers not granted to the government are retained by the people. The government's power derives from the people as a whole. It need not be approved by each and every individual.
So yes, the government can govern you without your consent as an individual, and it is ethical and moral (within the context of "natural law") for it to do so, and it is not a violation of the principles of the Declaration of Independence or the US Constitution for it to do so. You retain the right to protest, to vote, and to attempt to convince the rest of us that we are wrong.
As for the 3 months, that number NASA pulled out of their asses to prevent the appearance of having another expensive failure.
It was completely appropriate of NASA to base its cost-benefit analyses on a conservative estimation of the working life of the Mars Rovers. There were a lot of unknowns for these missions, and overpromising the benefits before the fact would have been borderline dishonest. Can't you just be glad that the mission succeeded beyond conservative expectations?
The aqueducts are worthier of Wonder status than the Colosseum. They were a bigger project, more of an engineering feat, and had a greater effect on history.
Remember kids, listening to the radio is STEALING!!!
It matters when they decide what to teach your children. It matters when they vote for politicians believing God wants us to defend God's official borders for Israel, God wants us to oppress homosexuals, God wants us to keep whatever they think is immoral out of libraries and stores and off the Internet, God wants us to go to war against Godless Muslim countries, God wants us to stop stem cell research, etc. Or how about God made the white race the world's natural rulers, or God wants us to wipe out infidels, or fly airplanes into buildings or blow up cities? When people choose to believe things based on mysticism instead of reason, every prejudice can be magically validated and every base impulse indulged.
Beowulf comes out of an oral tradition not a written one. Furthermore, it is the greatest known Anglo-Saxon epic only because it is the only surviving one. Actually it's a mish-mash of self-contradictory and repetitive language, semi-Christianized and sanitized, probably unrepresentative of its genre. After it was written down it was lost for many centuries because the English language changed radically after the invasions of William the Conqueror, and English became a language of the lower classes, no longer used for learning, and people forgot how to read it. Most of our manuscripts for Ancient Greek texts come from Spanish Jews who got them from the Arabs - again, Europeans forgot how to read the language. Only the Latin texts were preserved by Christian Monks, and many of those were suppressed by the Church.
It's a good thing that language changes and adapts. It's a bad thing when writing degenerates or falls into misuse.
Google grows the mushrooms.
That is, Google is a content provider. The content it provides is links, which require great skill and a great investment to produce. All Verizon does is deliver the damn mushrooms. Does the delivery boy deserve a bonus every time a chef creates a masterpiece? Does the mail man get a cut if you mail a script, or a check?
Verizon needs to keep their hands off my damn mushrooms.